PERSONAL.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 4

PERSONAL.

Word was received in town yesterday that Mrs Moule, who for rserly resided in Nile street East, dv ■ at Morrinsville on Sunday from injuries, received in a trap accident. Deceased leaves a son and two daughters.

The sudden death is announced at Wellington of Mr Axel Holtz. For a considerable time he was a masseur under Dr Gartner, Gothenburg, and was afterwards in practice in England. For five years he was chief masseur under engagement to the New Zealand Government at Rotorua and Hanmer, and he afterwards resigned to take up practice in Wellington.

Among the passengers who arrived from London by the Rotorua yesterday were Captain O. It. Macdoiiald, of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, and Captain Gibbons, of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, both of whom were accompanied by their wives and families. Captain Macdonald will succeed LieutenantColonel Braithwaito, who has been appointed chief of the General Staff in succession to Colonel Heard, as general staff officer for the Auckland Military District. Captain Gibbon will ■ replace Lieutenant-Colonel Cochrane^jwho has gone to England, as director of military operations, states a. Wellington Press Association telegram.

The late Mr R. M. Orosbie, manager of Burt and Company's factory at Port Chalmers, who after being missing for ten days was found in Lower Dundas street, Dunediri, on Tuesday, was formerly'a resident of Nelson, and was a partner in the firm of Montray and Crosbie, engineers, whose' Spho foundry was in Bridge street. The deceased, who was the'father of Mrs George Hogg, of this city, was 76 years of age. He went to work as usual last Wednesday week, and was known to have boarded the train at Port Chalmers to return home in the evening. Whether he alighted at Peliehet Bay station or not is uncertain, but apparently he did, and subsequently lost his way, a® the weather that night was very severe.